Download your Free Anti-Valentine's Day card

By Emily Senior

12 February 2016

Does Valentine's Day and its relentless barrage of romantic
iconography bring on a serious case of the bah-humbugs? Do you have
a significant other, but seriously resent feeding the corporate
beast? Well lucky for you Valentine's Day scrooges we have an
answer to your woes.

House & Garden would like to present (drumroll…)
the least Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day cards imaginable! Free
to download, and easy to print on to the A4 paper of your
choice.

Say I love you with a choice of either stylish cacti (below), or
a mythical horned beast whose ferocious appearance belies a kind
and gentle heart. Simply fold in half, and scrawl with a message of
devotion.

The cards are designed by one of our favourite young
artists Maddy Venus (real surname). Maddy is the youngest Venus in
an artistic lineage that encompasses seven artists, spanning four
generations of one family, who have been working as professional
illustrators since the early 1920s. The work of Maddy's great
grandmother Sylvia Venus will be familiar to many from old editions
of Enid Blyton's books.

The family now run an independent greetings card company just
north of Scarborough in North Yorkshire using their
designs. Flytrap Publishing's cards are beautiful
quality and printed on paper sourced from managed forests or
recycled paper pulp. Well worth a look.